Comment on What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops?
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 11 months ago
It depends how badly you need that data to never see the light of day again. Most likely, you’ll be fine to erase the drives with secure erase options (where it writes 0 and then 1 to the whole drive, and back and forth a few times depending on settings), but if you really really need to 100% guarantee there’s absolutely no chance of recovery, then you’ll need to destroy the drives physically
NotSpez@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There is nothing extremely sensitive on there, but the more time I spend on lemmy (as a bit of a tech noob) the more I care about privacy
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 11 months ago
In that case, secure wipe should be more than enough
also, if you’re getting rid of them, there might be a charity you can donate them to rather than just tossing them. Idk any off the top of my head, but it seems worth looking into